Sash-holder



No. 6|0,8D5. Pa'tented Sept. l3, I898. R. H. FENN. SASH HOLDER.

(Application filed Dec. 30, 1897) (No Model.)

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RUSSELL I-I. FENN, OF .LEAVENIVORTH, KANSAS.

SASH-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,805, datedSeptember 13,1898. Application filed December 30, 1897. ,SerialNo.664,499. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RUSSELL I-I. FENN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Leavenworth, in the county of Leavenworth and State ofKansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSash-Holders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to sash-holders and it is designed toprovide a sash-holder of simple and inexpensive character andconstruction capable of being readily and easily applied and which canbe used upon both upper and lower sashes. The invention is also designedto provide a device of this character which will operate efficiently nomatter how loose-fitting the sash maybe in its casing.

With these objects in View the invention consists in the novelconstruction and com bination of parts, all as hereinafter described,and pointed out in the appended claim.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a portion of a window frame andsash, showing my invention applied thereto, the lower sash be ing shownin raised position and both sashes being broken away. Fig. 2 is a faceview of a portion of one side of the window-frame, showing the holdersin position, with the position of the sashes indicated in dotted lines.Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively end and side views of the plug and thedog pivoted therein. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the dog removed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates a windowframe or casing; B and C, respectively, the upper and lower sashes; D,the parting strip or head, and E the inner guide strip or bead.

In the drawings I have shown both sashes as provided with one of myimproved supporting devices; but inasmuch as both devices are exactduplicates, both in construction and arrangement, position excepted, butone will be specifically described.

F designates a cylindrical plug formed with an enlarged taperedouter endportion having peripheral fins or lugs f. This plug is driven into ahole bored in the face of the jamb at one side, which forms the guidewayfor the sash and is partly underneath the bead D or E. The lugs or finsfare designed to embed themselves in the wood as the plug is driven toits seat, and thus secure it firmly in place, while the tapered outerend portion of the plug not only assists in holding it, but it alsoprevents it from being driven in beyond the face of the jamb. Said plugis formed with an opening extending axially therethrough and with a lugupon each side of said opening and projecting from the inner end of theplug. Pivoted to and between said lugs and extending through the saidopening is a toothed gravity-dog H, whose outer toothed portion isdesigned to engage the edge face of the vertical rail. of the sash.Connected to this dog is abent lever K, which extends out through theouter end of the plug in a plane parallel with the sash and between thesash and the bead-strip D or E, said strip being slightly cut away at itinner edge, as indicated at L, to permit the passage and operation ofthe said lever.

The operation of the device will be readily understood. The weight ofthe sash, at whatever point it may be raised to, causes the toothed endof the dog to firmly engage there with and support it in that postionuntil the dogis released by the operation of the lever K.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a sash-holder consisting of apivoted toothed dog adapted to engage and support the sash, togetherwith a lever by means of which such dog may be released from itsengagement, and I do not claim the same broadly. An objection which isfound in all devices of this particular kind with which I am familiar isthat the lever which releases the dog is extended out through thewindow-bead. Consequently if one of the devices is applied to an uppersash the lower sash cannot be raised, for the reason that the check-railP thereof will engage the said lever in such a manner as to prevent itsfurther movement. This objection may be more readily understood byreference to Fig. l of the drawings of the pat cut to W. H. Hunter, No.421,07 7, dated February 11, 1890. The present invention avoids thisobjection by extending the said lever out between the sash and the beadin the manner shown and described, so that when applied to an upper sashsaid lever does not interfere with the movement of the lower sash.

Another objection which this invention is designed to overcome is thatdue to the fact that the dog has been limited in its downward andoutward movement by the construction and arrangement of the device insuch a manner that if a sash happens to be loose-fitting beyond acertain extent the dog will not e11- gage therewith sufficiently to forma support. It will be readily seen that in the present device the dog isnot so limited and that it will eifectively engage with the sash nomatter how loose-fitting it may be.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described sash-holder, comprising a plug adapted to be seatedin a windowcasing, in the manner substantially as described, and havingan inner cylindric portion formed with fins, and an outer taperingportion, said plug having also an opening extending axiallytherethrough, and a lug at its inner end upon each side of the saidopening, together with a toothed gravity-dog pivoted to said lugs andextending through the said opening and beyond the outer end of the plug,and a lever connected to said dog, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RUSSELL H. FENN.

WVitnesses:

C. S. HARToUeH, O. N. HALSTED.

